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Kasrahalteth's Debates
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Outsourcing labor is a serious danger to America's economy and needs to be dealt with.
Frithaes. There aren't nearly enough debates about outsourcing on this website and I thought I'd fix that. Outsourcing is a simple enough concept. If an American company outsources all but its top tier, say 10% of its workers, the managers and corporate leaders and whatnot, then all the money spent on its product either goes to the foreign workers or to that top tier. (And possibly the stock holders but I'll address that later.) The top tier (managers and the like) will give back to the count...
We will eventually see the rise of artificial intelligence, and even artificial consciousness.
The possibility of artificial intelligence is intriguing at least in part due to the fact that we have so poor a grasp on the question of intelligence and "thinking" in general. What does it mean, really, to be "intelligent?" What is really going on when someone is "thinking?" While all of us might have some opinions on these questions, it's very difficult to see how anyone could actually claim to know the answers beyond any reasonable doubt. If we truly did understand "thinking," for example, o...
In the battle to overcome terrorism, Islam is not the enemy, ignorance is.
I am sick of reading debate topics claiming that islam is a "cult" or it is the religion of evil. It angers me that the country I love is full of such blind and ignorant people. When will America wake up and realize that this islam/terrorist problem was created by the "we are America, we know best" view. A quote from an Iraqi refugee, "We refuse to choose between Islamic fundamentalism and American imperialism." can best sum up my stance. There are two reasons I can think of for people making th...
BLACK PRESIDENT
What the heck can a black man do for this country. It aint gonna happen not this day and age. I don't care what oprah does or says....
Government Wealth Redistribution
I would like to debate the moral dilemma raised by taxing as a means of wealth redistribution. This was raised in your earlier debate on abortion. I do not wish to debate that topic at all (just to be clear). You basically state that you cannot rely on the goodwill of the people to help those in need so we must use taxation to accomplish that goal. However, you state that you do not trust the goodwill of the people, so those same people should be taxed in order to guarantee their overall wel...